It is easy to predict the threats to the dwindling population of the magnificent stripped cat but not easy to solve the crisis the animal faces. The problems faced by tiger conservationists are, therefore, daunting. But not insurmountable. Surveys by the World Wide Fund for Nature (International), in recent years, however, have indicated a decrease in open trade of tiger bones and medicinces particularly in the Asian markets though it does not reveal a similar finding in trade of tiger parts and derivatives particularly in Japan and the U.S. The demand for tiger skin, it is reported, has definitely gone down as the fashion industry no longer uses or propagates its use, according to Mr. Thomas Mathew of WWF- International.